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was removed to Hospital on May 31st, having caught the disease
at St. Thomas' Hospital, where she was attending with the
children from 22, Belmore Street;
(b) Arthur Walter H., aged 3 months, unvaccinated, living at 9, Richmond
Place, Belmore Street, who sickened on May 31st and was
removed to Hospital on June 6th, after infecting
(1.) Frederick C., aged 52 years, vaccinated in infancy, who
sickened with Smallpox at 9, Richmond Terrace on
June 14th and was removed to Hospital on June 17th;
(2.) Elizabeth Emma L., aged 19 years, vaccinated in infancy,
living at 9, Vauxhall Mansions, Glasshouse Street, and
visiting at 9, Richmond Terrace, who sickened on June
17th and was removed to Hospital on June 20th.
(c) Charlotte C., aged 32 years, vaccinated in infancy, living at 13,
Brookland Street, who sickened on June 5th and was removed to
Hospital on June 9th, after having infected her husband, Edward
Charles C., aged 27 years, vaccinated in infancy, who sickened
on June 20th, and was removed to Hospital on June 22nd.
The above 15 cases are all connected, directly or indirectly, one with the
other, having started from Thomas Webster V. (case 9), and show how
easily Smallpox spreads by contact from person to person, from house to
house and even from locality to locality, until from one or two separate cases
an outbreak or epidemic may arise, unless great care is taken in following
up all “Contacts.” Notification (prompt), isolation (immediate), and disinfection
(efficient), together with the following up carefully of all “Contacts,”
and vaccination, are the means whereby Sanitary Authorities must be, at
all times, prepared to battle with an outbreak of Smallpox—more especially
in these present days of neglected vaccination and revaccination.